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Specimens will be determined for members free of 
charge. All specimens sent in for determination should 
be accompanied by full and accurate data, and will be 
placed in the Society Herbarium. All members of the 
genus Isoétes and all the more critical species of the 
genus Equisetum are especially desired. 
L. S. Hopkins, Curator. 
Report of the Editors for 1915 
Aside from the Society membership there are forty- 
four paid subscribers for the JOURNAL, chiefly public 
libraries, colleges, and natural history clubs. Six of 
these were received during the year 1915 and four were 
lost, two by withdrawal and two by transfer to the 
membership list. Many sample copies have been sent 
to libraries and institutions, but to bring the matter 
properly to the attention of a periodical committee a 
personal interview is usually necessary. Members who 
live in the vicinity of large libraries can do good service 
for the Society by presenting this matter to the proper 
authorities. Sample copies will gladly be sent at the 
request of any member who will undertake this work. 
There remain exactly 30 full sets of Vol. I of the 
JouRNAL among the back numbers held for sale. These 
will doubtless be exhausted sometime before the end 
of another five years, so subscribers who wish to fill 
their sets should act promptly. 
From the standpoint of the preparation of the JouR- 
NAL number by number there is little for the editors to 
report which differs from reports of other years. We 
find no dearth of copy. In fact, we are usually one or 
two whole numbers ahead and the major part of every 
number comes to us unsolicited. There is little ques- 
tion that if finances permitted, we could issue forty or 
